kettle

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  1. noun A metal pot, usually with a lid, for boiling or stewing.
  2. noun A teakettle.
  3. noun Music A kettledrum.

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  • By the kettle were a catering tin of cheap instant coffee, a box of sugar cubes, and a jar of coffee whitener. —  Conferences are Murder - McDermid, Val - Lindsay Gordon 04
  • But I just finsihed it and the kettle is all the way downstairs ... —  B3ta
  • Or to take a more familiar example, the fur on the inside of a tea-kettle is carbonate of lime; and for anything chemistry tells us to the contrary, the chalk might be a kind of gigantic fur upon the bottom of the earth-kettle, which is kept pretty hot below But the slice of chalk presents a totally different appearance when placed under the microscope. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
  • On the kettle was a perpendicular spout covered with a heavy stone. —  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
  • We have it on unimpeachable authority that this kettle was the kettle in residence at the establishment of our late colleague Miss Constantia Lawson, the Senior Classic of her year! —  A College Girl
 

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  1. Middle English ketel, from Old Norse ketill and Old English cetel, both from Latin catīllus, diminutive of catīnus, large bowl.

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  1. from Middle English ketel, ketyl, kettyl, also chetel, from Anglo-Saxon cetel, cytel = Old Saxon ketil = OFries. ketel, szetel, tsetel, tsietel = Dutch ketel = Old High German chezil, Middle High German kezzel. G. kessel = Ieel. ketill = Swedish kittel = Danish kjedel = Norwegian kjel, kil = Gothic (Moesogothic) katils, a kettle; cf. Lithuanian katilas = Lett, katls = Old Bulgarian kotel, kotl, a kettle; usually derived from Latin catinus (Sicilian κότινον), diminutive catillus, a deep bowl, a deep vessel for cooking or serving up food (cf. Greek κότνλος, a cup); but the word may be Teutonic confused with the L.: cf. Old High German chezzi, Middle High German kezzi, a kettle (= Anglo-Saxon cete, glossed cacabus); Icelandic kati, also ketla, a small ship.
 

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/ˈkɛtl/
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